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My home is not a place, it is people.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
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All true wealth is biological.
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Miles is... Miles close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
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Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
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